Word: cancel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midway in the varsity contest, heavy spring rains turned Springfield's clay courts to mud, to cancel the doubles play...
...departure for a series of conferences in Turkey, Greece and Italy, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was told by his doctors to cancel his trip. Reason: his chronic cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder) demanded an immediate operation...
...Duxford R.A.F. field near Cambridge, the R.A.F. brass gathered to show off Britain's jet air power. Noting cloud formations (at 1,200 ft.) in the sky, Tito suggested that the demonstration be canceled, but his hosts insisted. Minutes later two Meteor Mark 8s collided during an acrobatic show and crashed, killing both pilots, while Tito looked on in horror. (On his way to England, four other Britons had been killed during a 60-plane "flyover" staged at Gibraltar.) Tito, visibly upset, asked the British to cancel the rest of the show. They refused. But before it was over...
...expected speakers, Madame Ranjit S. Pandit, Indian delegate to the UN, and Ahmed Khah Bokhart, Pakistan delegate and Security Council President were forced to cancel their appearances because of a UN session in New York...
...both the White House and State knew that repudiation, for the U.S., was not now feasible. Even in today's jungle of diplomacy, the U.S. cannot offhandedly cancel its formal agreements. In the case of Nationalist China-which this week abrogated its treaty with Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL)-Russia was openly aiding and abetting a rival Chinese government, i.e., the Chinese Communists in Peking. But the U.S. is still committed to a kind of tense diplomatic equilibrium with Russia. Moreover, the Yalta and Potsdam agreements were so sweeping in import that repudiation might immediately put the U.S. face to face...